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E. v. MITCHELL & MIG. PLIMPTON.-

STRAW HAT SEWING MACHINE.

1%.- 317,836. Patented May 12, 1885.

Wm c% Unitas ra'rns ED\VIN V. MITCHELL AND MELVIN G. PLIMPTON, OF MEDFIELD, MASSACHU- SETTS, ASSIGNORS TO THE WILLCOX & GIBBS SEWING MACHINE COM- PANY, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

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SPECIFTCATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,836, dated May 12, 1885.

Application filed December 19, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWIN V. MrroHELL and MELVIN G. PLIMPTON, of Medfield, N orfolk county, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Straw-Hat- Sewing Machines, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention has reference to means for enabling the user of a straw-hatsewing machine to set the plait-gnide at a definite distance from the needle, and to replace it accurately in the same position after having removed it for any reason.

It consists in a special construction and arrangement of a pointer or index-finger and a graduated plate and the combination of the same with the plait-guide.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a partial view in front elevation of a strawhat-sewing machine provided wit-h the improvement; and Fig. 2 a detail view, partly in section and partly in elevation.

The machine shown is itselfof well'known construction. It is described in United States Patents No. 218,413, dated August 12, 1879, and No. 7 246,700, dated September 6, 1881, both granted for inventions of Charles H. \Villcox.

The plait-guide A is attached to the base B 0 of the machine-frame by means of the tongue C on the machine frame fitting within a groove in the body of the guide A, and the screw D passing through a slot in the guide. The guide-pin E, which passes through a hole 5 in the flange F of the plait-guide, is at the the inner end (right hand of Fig. 1) pro vided with a plate, G. The screw D passes through a hole in this plate and retains the guide-pin in place. A springwasher, H, is

40 placed under the head of the screw between it and the plate G.

So far the construction is the same as in the later of the above-mentioned patents.

In the present improvement the plate G is 5 provided with a pointer or index-finger, I, (which it did not have heretofore) and there is a graduated plate, K, fastened on the plaitguide and arranged thereon, so that when the plaitguide is adjusted the graduations pass successively the end of the pointer. The

pointer is made in one piece with the plate G, or is otherwise attached thereto.

The

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pointer and graduations are of great assistance in doing uniform work.

The attachment of the pointer to the plate G at the inner end of the guide-pin is the best form of the invention, and is specially claimed, but the invention is not wholly limited thereto, since there are other and broader featuresof novelty. For example, while itis not new to use a pointer opposite a graduated surface in connection with sewing machine guides it is believed to be new to adapt and apply the same to the plaitguide of a strawhatsewing machine.

It will be observed that in the machine shown the pointer is retained in place by the same screw which holds the sliding plait-guide and the guide-pin in position, and also that the pointer is permanently attached (through 7C the plate G, which may be regarded as part either of the pointer or of the guide-pin) to the guide-pin E. Of course the graduations could be directly on the guide instead of on an attached plate.

We claim-- 1. The combination, with the flanged plaitguide supported on the face of the machine frame and connected therewith by a tongue and groove, the guidepin passing through a 8: hole in the flange of said plait-guide, and the screw for retaining the plait-guide and guide pin in place, of the graduated plate on the upper part of the plait-guide to the right of said flange and above said screw, and the stationary pointer opposite the graduations, substantially as described. v

2. In combination with the sliding plaitguide provided with a graduated plate, the stationary guide-pin having a pointer permanently attached thereto, substantially as described.

3. The pointer attached to the perforated plate at the inner end of the guide-pin, in com bination with said guide-pin, the plaitguide provided with a graduated plate and the holding-screw, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDlVIN V. MITCHELL.

Witnesses: MELVIN G. PLIMPTON.

J. B. HALE, I. B. CoDDINd. 

